I just got off the phone with my mom, pleased that I had been able to have an uninterrupted conversation. Then I took a minute to concentrate on what Hannah was doing. She was pushing around a toy shopping cart. In it was a wastepaper basket, a roll of toilet paper, a rolling pin, and a toilet plunger. How’d that happen? I swear I was right on her while I was talking.

Does anyone else’s child have an obsession with toilet plungers? Maybe it’s time to find a better hiding place for it. What do you think?

Which reminds me. I think the real reason mothers of toddlers are a bit on the bitchy side (besides PMS) is that we never get to go to the bathroom without someone grabbing for a plunger, the toilet paper, or the box of tampons under the sink. You try going potty while someone stuffs toilet paper in the gap between your bottom and the back of the toilet seat. Or tries to get on your lap. Or tries to push you off the seat so they can get on. It might just make you a little grumpy.